Summer is looking great with this international line-up of fresh shows to stream to your hearts content, this January on SBS On Demand.
Come Dine With Me (season 14)
Series Premiere
Monday, 2 January 2023 SBS Food and SBS On Demand
(new episodes coming weekly)
Come Dine With Me takes people who are experts in the art of giving the perfect dinner party and puts their skills to the test. All are great cooks and excellent hosts – but they are all very different people. So one person’s perfect dinner party could be another person’s evening from hell.
How will hosts cope with a whole week of each other’s hospitality?
Come Dine With Me will air on SBS Food from Monday, 2 January at 6.00pm, and becomes simultaneously available on SBS On Demand.
Somewhere Boy (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 5 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all eight episodes available to stream)
Danny was just a baby when his mother was killed. For years, Danny’s father kept him locked away in their home, safe from the ‘monsters’ outside; occupied by listening to records and watching old movies with happy endings.
But shortly after his eighteenth birthday, Danny is forced to venture outside and discover a world he never knew existed.
What follows is a coming-of-age story like no other. Stars Lewis Gribben, Jamie Michie, and Lisa McGrillis.
Somewhere Boy in an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Vienna Blood (season three)
Australian Premiere SBS On Demand Box-Set
Thursday, 5 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all six episodes available to stream)
1900s Vienna is a hot bed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city’s grand cafes and opera houses.
Max Liebermann is a brilliant young English student of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. When Max meets Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help him investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
Stars Matthew Beard (The Imitation Game), Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones), and Jeurgen Maurer (Vorstadtweiber).
Vienna Blood S3 is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1 and 2 are currently available on SBS On Demand.
Desperate Measures (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 12 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all four episodes available to stream)
Desperate Measures follows diligent bank clerk Rowan, who raised her teenage son Finn on a lawless estate whilst paying off her absent father’s debts. When Finn becomes involved with a violent gang, Rowan commits a dangerous heist at the bank she works in to bail him out.
Stars Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Warren Brown and Sunetra Sarker.
Desperate Measures is an SBS On Demand Exclusive.
Am I Being Unreasonable? (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 12 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all six episodes available to stream)
Obsessive friendship, maternal paranoia, and a dead cat feature in this twisted comedy from Selin Hizli and Daisy May Cooper. Nic is stuck in an unfulfilling marriage while grieving a loss she can’t share with anyone. Only her son Ollie keeps her going. When Jen arrives in town, Nic’s life is lit up with laughter and she finds a kindred spirits to share her secret with.
Executive produced by one of TV’s most exciting talents, Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials), this mischievous blend of funny and frantic takes female storytelling to a dynamic new level.
Am I Being Unreasonable? is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Enemy Of The People (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 12 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all eight episodes available to stream)
After writing a critical article on her town’s biggest celebrity, reporter Katja Salonen is cast into whirlpool of deceit and abuses of power. At the centre of everything is an unsolved murder and a deadly conspiracy. Condemned by the local townspeople, she must suffer a modern-day witch hunt and antipathy from friends. Amongst the chaos, Katja searches for the truth, risking not only reputation, but her life.
Stars Kreeta Salminen, Mikko Nousiainen, and Tobias Zilliacus.
Enemy Of The People is an SBS On Demand, and will be available in Finnish with English subtitles.
Sandhamn Murders (season 8)
Australian Premiere SBS On Demand Box-Set
Thursday, 12 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all six episodes available to stream)
Viveca Sten’s popular novels come to life in suspenseful series of Nordic crime set against the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
Stars Alexandra Rapaport, Jakob Cedergren and Sandra Andreis.
Sandhamn Murders is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Swedish with English subtitles. S1-7 are currently available on SBS On Demand.
Germinal (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 12 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all six episodes available to stream)
Germinal is the story of a miners’ strike during the Second French Empire, chronicling their passions, suffering and comradeship. When Etienne goes on the run after assaulting a superior, he takes shelter in the coal mining town of Montsou and takes a job pushing carts deep into the tunnels of the mines. He discovers a difficult life between harsh working conditions and daily humiliation at the hands of the gentry. One day, an incident triggers Etienne to begin dreaming up a
workers’ revolt.
Stars Louis Peres, Thierry Godard and Natacha Lininger.
Germinal is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in French with English subtitles.
Fenris (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 19 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all six episodes available to stream)
When a boy from a small Norwegian town disappears, rumours that wolves are responsible captures the townspeople’s imagination. Visiting biologist Emma Salomonsen (Ida Elise Broch) discovers the boy’s bloody jacket in her father’s home before he also disappears. As she investigates his disappearance she is forced to rely on her scientific
knowledge and instincts to uncover the truth.
Stars Magnus Krepper and Cengiz Al.
Fenris is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Norwegian with English subtitles.
Pandore (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 19 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all ten episodes available to stream)
The Belgian conservative party’s campaign is disrupted by a corruption investigation. Meanwhile, the rape of a young activist is caught on tape by an ambitious politician. As an investigation commences, four people are brought together: Claire, a judge; Mark, a politician; Ludivine, an activist and Sasha, a journalist. Each of them is intent on defending their own version of events.
Stars Anne Coesens, Yoann Blanc, Mélissa Diarra and Salomé Richard.
Pandore is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in French with English subtitles.
Educators (season 3)
Australian Premiere SBS On Demand Box-Set
Thursday, 19 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all six episodes available to stream)
Educators is a cleverly improvised comedy series featuring some of New Zealand’s most well-known comedians. The returning season focuses on teachers working in an ordinary suburban high school. The only problem is – they are all hopelessly inept at their jobs.
Between a confusing curriculum, impossible timetables and parent-teacher interviews, their only hope is to be saved by the bell…
Stars Jonny Brugh, and Jackie van Beek of What We Do In The Shadows, Rick Donald, Kura Forrester and Cohen Holloway.
Educators S3 is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1 and S2 are currently available on SBS On Demand.
Cleaning Up (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 19 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(first two episodes available to stream)
Based on a 2019 British series of the same name, Cleaning Up follows three cleaners at a finance company who overhear a crucial piece of stock-market information on the job. Faced with difficult times and borderline poverty, they resort to insider trading as a means of feeding their families.
Stars Yum Jung-ah, Jeon So-min and Kim Jae-hwa.
Cleaning Up is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Korean with English subtitles. Episodes will become available weekly on SBS On Demand, with the final episode available on Thursday, 27 April 2023.
All Those Things We Never Said (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 26 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all nine episodes available to stream)
Julia has always had a difficult relationship with her father. Days before her wedding, her father dies. The day after his funeral, a crate arrives containing a life-sized carbon copy android of him. The android explains that he possesses the memory of her father with a battery life of seven days. As father and daughter reconcile, they are given a second chance of righting wrongs and rediscovering life from a new perspective.
Stars Jean Reno and Alexandra Maria Lara.
All Those Things We Never Said is an SBS On Demand exclusive premiere and will be available in French with English subtitles. The series will air at a later date on SBS.
Blackport (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 26 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all eight episodes available to stream)
Russia has oil. Africa has gold. Iceland has fish. Set in the 1980‘s in a small Icelandic fishing village, the story follows a married couple, Harpa and Grimur. As they build a small fishing empire along with their childhood friends. Due to the introduction of a new fishing quota system in the country, where the fishing grounds are privatised, the struggle for power results in a feud of jealousy, greed and betrayal. A collective venture, that mirrors true events as they played out and dramatically changed the political landscape in Iceland, creating the country’s first billionaires.
Blackport is an SBS On Demand exclusive premiere and will be available in Icelandic with English subtitles. The series will air at a later date on SBS.
Ida Takes Charge (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 26 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all eight episodes available to stream)
After Ida moves away from her family to study at the University of Oslo, she develops a fear of terror attacks. When she meets the loner Aksel – a lone wolf who spends most of his times on incel forums (involuntarily celibate), she fears that it is only a matter of time before he commits a school shooting. Ida decides to take matters into her own hands
before it’s too late.
Stars Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne and Arthur Hakalahti.
Ida Takes Charge is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Norwegian with English subtitles.
The Ambassador (series one)
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 26 January 2023 SBS On Demand
(all ten episodes available to stream)
With Ambassador Tina Friis-Thomson at the helm, the staff at the Swedish Embassy in Mexico City will promote the best side of Sweden. Meanwhile, the Ambassador has different ideas. Although his goal is to promote Sweden…he wants to promote himself more.
Stars Mikael Tornving, Fredrik Hallgren, Happy Jenkell and Emil Almen.
Blackport is an SBS On Demand exclusive premiere and will be available in Swedish and English with English subtitles.
